It was my first day at work in Business Objects today... I had checked the online map yesterday and roughly know how to get to Miller Street but the biggest problem was..... how to get out of hotel.. HAHAHAH
I woke up early in the morning and took a bath in the cold... Sydney's having its winter now and its about 16-18 Degress Celsius outside... hahah and remember, my hotel room heater is faulty? hehehe
I took a hot water bath and wore my suit to work... Went downstairs and walked out of the main door... Hmmm... how do I get to the streets without having to walk down the slop? Went back into the hotel again and took the lift down to basement... Oops... basement is just the underground carpark.. I still can't get to the streets.. At this time, a caucasian guy came in to the lift at basement and I think I look quite lost.. hahah he started asking if I was lost... I said that I'm trying to get to Miller Street and he offered to bring me there cause he's going that direction as well... I was delighted..
He took me to Level 1 and instead of walking to the main door, he turned left and walked the other way... As a caucasian, he's tall... and walks super fast also... I had to like be in a half running mode to try to catch up with him. So... what I had to do is to walk to the back of the hotel and there was a door which led to a short flight of stairs to the streets.. Yeh!!! So I walked to Miller Street as per what I remembered from the map...
As I walked and walked, I still couldn't find the unit I was looking for... :( There were some shops under renovation but I don't think that's what I'm looking for... I walked to the next junction and started asking around... I asked some contractors working on a shop under renovation and they do not know where 80 Miller Street is @@... can't believe it man...
Thinking back about the map, I remembered that its before the junction so I walked backwards.. Guess what! I walked past the building earlier.. hahah Its really just before the junction... how could I have missed it...
I quickly walked to the lobby and went upstairs.. I introduced myself to our lovely receptionist, Carmen... Carmen quickly called for Michelle and she came to bring me to our desks... After settling down, she took me for a quick tour around the office and introed me to the wonderful pantry that I will never forget. It had orange juice, milk, bread, butter, cereal, fruits, DISH WASHER... and etc...
The next surprise was that it wasn't the only pantry... There was another pantry which had a dishwasher, a microwave, a toaster, fridge, LCD TV!!! can you believe that I was watching Oprah during lunch!!! hahahha Not forgetting to say that it had a beautiful view!!!
I will never forget the office.. it had the best pantries I've ever seen...
Monday, August 13, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
In Sydney - *Warning* Very Long Post
Arrived at Sydney Airport at about 7 plus Sydney time which is about 5pm Singapore time. There was a lot of ppl at the Airport, very packed.
It was cold. About 16 Degrees C, brrrrr it was dark as well. Totally feel like night time... In SG, 7 plus, we still can see some gleam of light in the sky but its different here.
Dragged my luggage to outside the airport and sat there for a smoke plus wear my business suite cause it was really cold. Called my hubby to say that I've reached and they are still at my parent's place. So I told him I was fine and will be heading for the airport soon. At this time, Aunt Glenda called. I was so happy cause she's was married to an Aussie, Uncle Geof, and is residing in Aust now. So I told her I am in Australia already :). Then she says that she will find a day and ask Uncle Geof to drive to North Sydney to meet me... Was thrilled cause I have not seen her since she got married.
Well, back to my little adventure, I went to look for the taxi queue outside the airport. The queue was really long but moved really fast. After a short while, I got on a cab told the driver to drive to Habourview Hotel. On my way to the hotel, I heard very loudly "Pop, Pop, Pop" on my left. I turned to see what it was and I saw Fire Works!!! Hahaha the driver said jokingly that Sydney's welcoming me... He's got such good humour. I understand from him that they don't have this often and they must either be having a celebration or a rehersal. Whatever it was for, its nice. My first time seeing fireworks "Live" at such close proximity. After some time, I reached the hotel and it costs me about AUS$40plus. Thats expensive. It was only about 20 mins cab ride. Hehheheh
Hotel's up a little slope and it has got a very nice view. I took my luggage and went to the hotel. After informing the Hotel Guest Relations personnel that I have a reservation, he asked me for my credit card. Well, it was my first time abroad and checking in to a hotel myself so I was like @@, I have no credit card and I thought it will be covered by the company. So I informed the gentlemen that I do not have one and I will have to check with the company tomorrow when I get there.
They brought me to the room and it was at the top level Suite. Cool....
Well it looks like a normal SG hotel room with TV and working desk. But it was real exciting as it was my first "adventure". I kept my luggage and laptop and suddenly realised that I hadn't had dinner. Hahahah too excited and forget all about it. It was already 10pm. In house Restaurant was already closed hence I decided to call for Room Service and ordered this.... Pizza. Well, everything on the menu looked so expensive hence I chose to eat Pizza. hahahha
Pizza was huge and I love it.
I have a bathtub and a heater... Like I said, I haven't travelled before hence it took me some time to figure out how to operate the heater.. hahahah In the end, I actually spent the first night in the cold cause the heater was faulty.. hahah
Tomorrow off to the office!!! More to come :)
It was cold. About 16 Degrees C, brrrrr it was dark as well. Totally feel like night time... In SG, 7 plus, we still can see some gleam of light in the sky but its different here.
Dragged my luggage to outside the airport and sat there for a smoke plus wear my business suite cause it was really cold. Called my hubby to say that I've reached and they are still at my parent's place. So I told him I was fine and will be heading for the airport soon. At this time, Aunt Glenda called. I was so happy cause she's was married to an Aussie, Uncle Geof, and is residing in Aust now. So I told her I am in Australia already :). Then she says that she will find a day and ask Uncle Geof to drive to North Sydney to meet me... Was thrilled cause I have not seen her since she got married.
Well, back to my little adventure, I went to look for the taxi queue outside the airport. The queue was really long but moved really fast. After a short while, I got on a cab told the driver to drive to Habourview Hotel. On my way to the hotel, I heard very loudly "Pop, Pop, Pop" on my left. I turned to see what it was and I saw Fire Works!!! Hahaha the driver said jokingly that Sydney's welcoming me... He's got such good humour. I understand from him that they don't have this often and they must either be having a celebration or a rehersal. Whatever it was for, its nice. My first time seeing fireworks "Live" at such close proximity. After some time, I reached the hotel and it costs me about AUS$40plus. Thats expensive. It was only about 20 mins cab ride. Hehheheh
Hotel's up a little slope and it has got a very nice view. I took my luggage and went to the hotel. After informing the Hotel Guest Relations personnel that I have a reservation, he asked me for my credit card. Well, it was my first time abroad and checking in to a hotel myself so I was like @@, I have no credit card and I thought it will be covered by the company. So I informed the gentlemen that I do not have one and I will have to check with the company tomorrow when I get there.
They brought me to the room and it was at the top level Suite. Cool....
Well it looks like a normal SG hotel room with TV and working desk. But it was real exciting as it was my first "adventure". I kept my luggage and laptop and suddenly realised that I hadn't had dinner. Hahahah too excited and forget all about it. It was already 10pm. In house Restaurant was already closed hence I decided to call for Room Service and ordered this.... Pizza. Well, everything on the menu looked so expensive hence I chose to eat Pizza. hahahha
Pizza was huge and I love it.
I have a bathtub and a heater... Like I said, I haven't travelled before hence it took me some time to figure out how to operate the heater.. hahahah In the end, I actually spent the first night in the cold cause the heater was faulty.. hahah
Tomorrow off to the office!!! More to come :)
12th Aug 2007 - My First Flight
This was blogged when I was on the plane. My first flight and I was flying ALONE!!!
Hi Everyone… Guess where I am now?
I am blogging from many many feet above ground. The Mountain tortoise has stepped out of her little SGD!! heheh I’m on SQ 219 on my way to Sydney… I’m now some where above the Indian Ocean (As at 12:46pm SG time , Still got 4:15 more hours to go…) heheheh, am already a little restless as I have stayed about 2 hours plus in flight.
Bags have already been packed last night and I was ready to go physically but was I ready mentally? Was I ready to leave my 3 kids and hubby for 5 days? We Shall see…
I want to blog as much as I feel and can rem since it’s my first flight. Let’s see what I have done so far:
6:30am 12th Aug: Hubby woke me up, bath and change to get ready.
6:45am: Dad called to say that he’s on his way
7:00am: Woke Joshua and Joy up to change. Josiah was already up since 5plus 6 am… heheheh
7:10am: Daddy reach our place, went down and started our trip to the airport and hubby was so nice to help me carry and load my luggage… Think he will miss me very much.. heheheh *winkz*
7:45am: Arrive at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2 and approach Counter 8 to check in my luggage. It was quite a long queue.
8:00am: Luggage checked in and we brought the kids to the Macdonalds to have their favourite breakfast.
8:30am: Kids finished breakfast, I told Daddy and hubby that I will go in already cause I didn’t want to be late… :) so gave Joshua, Joy and Josiah a hug and we tool the escalator up.
8:40am: Arrive at the “gates” (dunno what u call that… immigration gates?) hehehe and realized that the display states SQ219 “Last Call” (at 8:45am last call?? I pondered)…
Gave all three of them big hugs and told Joshua to listen to his Daddy, I hope he does…
Gave Shawn a hug and kiss, bid daddy and mummy bye and walked in.
8:45am: Went through the “XRay” inspection point and put my lappie back through then walked pass the “counter” where the lady checked my Visa and boarding tix and proceed to walk in. I’m boarding at Gates F60 and it was all the way in. Gate F60 was the end on the right side so walked on 3 parallel travelators before arriving at the inspection point. There was soooooo many ppl queuing. So I went to the washroom first, well the flight is 6 ½ hours u know…
8:55am: Went through the queue of ppl and put my stuffs through that “XRay” machine again. This time, I was asked to take my laptop out and put it in a separate box. Luckily, there was not much problems except that when I went trough the metal detector, its beeped.. heheheh, actually it beeped for many ppl… so we had to step over, and raise our hands to the side while the use the manual metal detector to screen pass each hand and each leg… :) Was quite “exciting” though…
9:15am : Proceed to the boarding counter and pass this nice lady my boarding pass and she returned me a section of it which stated my seat (58H). Couldn’t get a window seat as I was not fast enough… I will sure get the window seat on my return trip… lol. After the boarding counter, walked through another passage way to the plane.. Hubby called (I stepped aside for others to board) to say that they are going to my dad’s place cause Joshua wants to play guitar.. Wonder where does the Guitar comes from… I bid him goodbye again and phone and boarded the place..
9:35am: Pilot announced that we are a little behind schedule due to some issues and will get clearance in a few minutes..
9:45am: We are finally taking off… I felt a bit giddy when Plane taxi out, cause it kinds of feels like a car moving and stoping, moving and stopping. It also felt a little like roller coaster… soon we are up in the air already… Everything looks so small… hahahha the clouds looks like Marshmallows and it really looks very cool…
Current time:
1:18pm SG time: Local time in Sydney is 3:19pm.
I’m now over Timor Sea… reaching the edge of Aus soon
Distance left to travel to destination: 3653km
Ground Speed 866km/h
Time left: 3:43hrs
Altitude 11300m
Head Wind:62km/h
Outside Air Temperature: -46 °C
Estimated Arrival time 7:06pm Sydney time.
Okie.. That’s all for now.. I feel very sleepy, shall sleep and blog more later or when I reach the hotel..
Hi Everyone… Guess where I am now?
I am blogging from many many feet above ground. The Mountain tortoise has stepped out of her little SGD!! heheh I’m on SQ 219 on my way to Sydney… I’m now some where above the Indian Ocean (As at 12:46pm SG time , Still got 4:15 more hours to go…) heheheh, am already a little restless as I have stayed about 2 hours plus in flight.
Bags have already been packed last night and I was ready to go physically but was I ready mentally? Was I ready to leave my 3 kids and hubby for 5 days? We Shall see…
I want to blog as much as I feel and can rem since it’s my first flight. Let’s see what I have done so far:
6:30am 12th Aug: Hubby woke me up, bath and change to get ready.
6:45am: Dad called to say that he’s on his way
7:00am: Woke Joshua and Joy up to change. Josiah was already up since 5plus 6 am… heheheh
7:10am: Daddy reach our place, went down and started our trip to the airport and hubby was so nice to help me carry and load my luggage… Think he will miss me very much.. heheheh *winkz*
7:45am: Arrive at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2 and approach Counter 8 to check in my luggage. It was quite a long queue.
8:00am: Luggage checked in and we brought the kids to the Macdonalds to have their favourite breakfast.
8:30am: Kids finished breakfast, I told Daddy and hubby that I will go in already cause I didn’t want to be late… :) so gave Joshua, Joy and Josiah a hug and we tool the escalator up.
8:40am: Arrive at the “gates” (dunno what u call that… immigration gates?) hehehe and realized that the display states SQ219 “Last Call” (at 8:45am last call?? I pondered)…
Gave all three of them big hugs and told Joshua to listen to his Daddy, I hope he does…
Gave Shawn a hug and kiss, bid daddy and mummy bye and walked in.
8:45am: Went through the “XRay” inspection point and put my lappie back through then walked pass the “counter” where the lady checked my Visa and boarding tix and proceed to walk in. I’m boarding at Gates F60 and it was all the way in. Gate F60 was the end on the right side so walked on 3 parallel travelators before arriving at the inspection point. There was soooooo many ppl queuing. So I went to the washroom first, well the flight is 6 ½ hours u know…
8:55am: Went through the queue of ppl and put my stuffs through that “XRay” machine again. This time, I was asked to take my laptop out and put it in a separate box. Luckily, there was not much problems except that when I went trough the metal detector, its beeped.. heheheh, actually it beeped for many ppl… so we had to step over, and raise our hands to the side while the use the manual metal detector to screen pass each hand and each leg… :) Was quite “exciting” though…
9:15am : Proceed to the boarding counter and pass this nice lady my boarding pass and she returned me a section of it which stated my seat (58H). Couldn’t get a window seat as I was not fast enough… I will sure get the window seat on my return trip… lol. After the boarding counter, walked through another passage way to the plane.. Hubby called (I stepped aside for others to board) to say that they are going to my dad’s place cause Joshua wants to play guitar.. Wonder where does the Guitar comes from… I bid him goodbye again and phone and boarded the place..
9:35am: Pilot announced that we are a little behind schedule due to some issues and will get clearance in a few minutes..
9:45am: We are finally taking off… I felt a bit giddy when Plane taxi out, cause it kinds of feels like a car moving and stoping, moving and stopping. It also felt a little like roller coaster… soon we are up in the air already… Everything looks so small… hahahha the clouds looks like Marshmallows and it really looks very cool…
Current time:
1:18pm SG time: Local time in Sydney is 3:19pm.
I’m now over Timor Sea… reaching the edge of Aus soon
Distance left to travel to destination: 3653km
Ground Speed 866km/h
Time left: 3:43hrs
Altitude 11300m
Head Wind:62km/h
Outside Air Temperature: -46 °C
Estimated Arrival time 7:06pm Sydney time.
Okie.. That’s all for now.. I feel very sleepy, shall sleep and blog more later or when I reach the hotel..
Friday, August 10, 2007
10th Aug 2007 Marks my last day at WW
Today marks my last day at Whizzwork.
I started in Cybermedia since 8th Apr 2002, so have been in the "same" company (or should I say same employment since Cybermedia was taken over by WW) for almost 5 1/2 years. Have seen really nice colleagues now friends and some not so nice colleagues.
Really feel very sad leaving cause we really have a very cheerful and fun bunch here whom we work really closely with each other. If its not for some people, I would really not have made this painful decision cause I'm a Nian Jiu person :(
We had a farewell dinner @NYDC Orchard on 6th Aug night but cause I sotong never bring camera, so no pictures on that... :(
People whom attended: Regina, Alan, Adeline, Jarol, Lyn, Me (obvious.. heheh), Sherry and Stanley (poor Stanley, we coax him there one.. hehehe)
Some pics of some really close friends I met here : Will miss u girls sooooo much!
Picture Stolen from Lynn.. heheh sorry ah, you a bit too far now for me to ask so I decided to steal.. hahahha
Taken: 6th Aug 2007, Location: The Balcony @ Heeren
From left: Jarol, Lynn, Sherry, Me and Adeline - Regina not in Pic cause she was the one taking it :P
A toast to my brighter future
We went for another farewell with the SS Team on 8th Aug 2007.
Went dinner at Marina South, Steamboat BBQ. Again Sotong me for got to bring camera.. hahah
People whom attended the dinner: Adeline, Lucas ( Whom went despite having assessments to rush, thanks!), Gui Xiang, Wong, Hai Yong, Sherry, Stanley, Yi Ping and of course Me!
After having dinner, a few of us sneaked in the Arcade for Air Con and Games.. hehehe
Then we headed to Party World @ Shenton for KTV session after dinner...! I think its more of drinking session for them.. hehehe
In total, they ordered 2 Martel and 1 Chivas and there were only 6 ppl drinking loh!!! Damn good drinkers in SS, best drinkers in WW.... heheheh
Taken: 8th Aug, Location: Party World @ Shenton, taken with Stanley's Phone...
Me and Sherry... My best friend, cum sister, cum smoking buddy.
Will miss you most girl...
Stanley and Haiyong when they are still sober.. hehhe
The still sober Wong and Gui Xiang... Wong was not in Singlet when we went to the KTV....
Subsequently when he was drunk, he even took of the singlet and Sherry scolded him.. hahaha
Sherry and Stanley.
Me and Yi Ping
Me and Stanley
Thanks guys and girls. I really enjoyed myself very very much.
Today... the team sent me gifts which caught me off guard... When Ivy called me to say got delivery for me, I thought stupid I*M send 1-1 exchange parts to the wrong place again issit? hahahah Instead, I see a delivery guy with a huge bouquet of flowers... I'm really touched girls.. Thanks..
The dog which was eyed by many, I heard.. heheh very very cute!!!
A big bouquet of 6 Sunflowers (My Fav)
Also recieved a box of Godiva Chocolates from the SS team, Bryan, Hong, Adeline and Sherry.
Thanks!!!!!!!! *Muacks*
Will really miss you guys alot.. no words can describe my feeling.
Do keep in touch... when u guys go out must jio me k?
Love you guys lots.. ! Hugz...
I started in Cybermedia since 8th Apr 2002, so have been in the "same" company (or should I say same employment since Cybermedia was taken over by WW) for almost 5 1/2 years. Have seen really nice colleagues now friends and some not so nice colleagues.
Really feel very sad leaving cause we really have a very cheerful and fun bunch here whom we work really closely with each other. If its not for some people, I would really not have made this painful decision cause I'm a Nian Jiu person :(
We had a farewell dinner @NYDC Orchard on 6th Aug night but cause I sotong never bring camera, so no pictures on that... :(
People whom attended: Regina, Alan, Adeline, Jarol, Lyn, Me (obvious.. heheh), Sherry and Stanley (poor Stanley, we coax him there one.. hehehe)
Some pics of some really close friends I met here : Will miss u girls sooooo much!
Picture Stolen from Lynn.. heheh sorry ah, you a bit too far now for me to ask so I decided to steal.. hahahha
Taken: 6th Aug 2007, Location: The Balcony @ Heeren
From left: Jarol, Lynn, Sherry, Me and Adeline - Regina not in Pic cause she was the one taking it :P
A toast to my brighter future
We went for another farewell with the SS Team on 8th Aug 2007.
Went dinner at Marina South, Steamboat BBQ. Again Sotong me for got to bring camera.. hahah
People whom attended the dinner: Adeline, Lucas ( Whom went despite having assessments to rush, thanks!), Gui Xiang, Wong, Hai Yong, Sherry, Stanley, Yi Ping and of course Me!
After having dinner, a few of us sneaked in the Arcade for Air Con and Games.. hehehe
Then we headed to Party World @ Shenton for KTV session after dinner...! I think its more of drinking session for them.. hehehe
In total, they ordered 2 Martel and 1 Chivas and there were only 6 ppl drinking loh!!! Damn good drinkers in SS, best drinkers in WW.... heheheh
Taken: 8th Aug, Location: Party World @ Shenton, taken with Stanley's Phone...
Me and Sherry... My best friend, cum sister, cum smoking buddy.
Will miss you most girl...
Stanley and Haiyong when they are still sober.. hehhe
The still sober Wong and Gui Xiang... Wong was not in Singlet when we went to the KTV....
Subsequently when he was drunk, he even took of the singlet and Sherry scolded him.. hahaha
Sherry and Stanley.
Me and Yi Ping
Me and Stanley
Thanks guys and girls. I really enjoyed myself very very much.
Today... the team sent me gifts which caught me off guard... When Ivy called me to say got delivery for me, I thought stupid I*M send 1-1 exchange parts to the wrong place again issit? hahahah Instead, I see a delivery guy with a huge bouquet of flowers... I'm really touched girls.. Thanks..
The dog which was eyed by many, I heard.. heheh very very cute!!!
A big bouquet of 6 Sunflowers (My Fav)
Also recieved a box of Godiva Chocolates from the SS team, Bryan, Hong, Adeline and Sherry.
Thanks!!!!!!!! *Muacks*
Will really miss you guys alot.. no words can describe my feeling.
Do keep in touch... when u guys go out must jio me k?
Love you guys lots.. ! Hugz...
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